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Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.

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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
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Former Vice President Of The United States
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Richard Bruce Cheney
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When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.
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To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.
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What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.
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I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.
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There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
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As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.
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I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things.
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There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.
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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.
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The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.
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Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?
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The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.
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The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.
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Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.
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If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.
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Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.
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The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.
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I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.
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